Hot
Week for Domain Sales Led By the Year's 3rd Biggest Sale (an
$850,000 Deal) & Two Others
at a Half Million Each

Summer may be over but 2013 domain sales
were hotter than ever this past week when three of the year's top
ten sales were reported. One of those ranks among 2013's top
three while two others reached the half million dollar mark to
take their own places on the upper tenth of our Year-to-Date
Top 100 Sales Chart.

The headliner was Hot.com, a domain
that Moniker/SnapNames
moved for a cool $850,000 - a figure exceeded only by the two
7-figure sales reported earlier this year (IG.com at $4.7 million and
114.com at $2.1 million).

Also making a big splash were a pair of $500,000
sales, each of which were made in private transactions. One of those
involved Finances.com
and the other Housing.com.
Yet another six-figure sale hit this week's leader board courtesy of
Sedo who
sold Moneta.com for $150,000.

By
Ron Jackson

GoDaddyAuctions
rounded out the first five on our latest weekly all extension Top
20 Sales Chart with Emancipated.com at $30,000 (a
name they sold on behalf of MostWantedDomains).
GoDaddyAuctions went on to pile up eight chart entries overall. Sedo was next
with places on the Big Board, including the week's biggest non
.com gTLD sale, #6 LT.org at $26,000. One other
sale from that category qualified for the elite list - Go Daddy's $18,540
sale of #13 DMM.net.

The ccTLDs were limited to one
chart entry this week - Sedo's $20,237 sale of #9
DailyDeals.de.

The .coms vacuumed up everything
else - sweeping 17 of the 20 charted sales overall, with Moniker/SnapNames
ringing up three of those. Chart honors also went to Morgan
Linton's Linton
Investments who brokered the $20,000 sale of #10
(tie) OneMonth.com.

Data from one major venue, Afternic,
came in after our deadline for the weekly report (Tuesday evenings
at 6pm U.S. Eastern time), sot we will include those numbers in next
week's report.

Here is how all of the
sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 29:

Keep in mind that these are the highest
value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting ALL high
value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce
because many sales are kept private at the insistence of
buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the
accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

There were six more five-figure sales off the
chart led by Sedo's $11,999 sale of Fluo.com. They added
$10,800 for JHSolutions.com and $10,000 for Retiready.com.
Moniker/SnapNames picked up $11,500 each for 20.net and SO.net
and GoDaddyAuctions drew $10,000 for PopBeauty.com.

.Com Supporting
Cast

GoDaddyAuctions led the .com supporting cast of
four-figure sales with Presage.com and PuzzleGames.com
at $9,800 apiece. SimplyGolf.com chipped in
another $9,500 there.

Moniker/SnapNames had 18 more four-figure .com sales
ranging from $2,000 to
$3,600 that
are listed in the table below:

Additional
Moniker/SnapNames .com Sales Between $2,000 - $3,600

cybersearch.com

$3,600

52666.com

$2,450

olmall.com

$3,600

118000.com

$2,350

arborwall.com

$3,500

nickslist.com

$2,295

zhefan.com

$3,400

duofang.com

$2,272

primania.com

$3,300

greenspot.com

$2,201

nmhbj.com

$3,100

arbitrade.com

$2,110

allplay.com

$3,003

kifaru.com

$2,102

trustinsurance.com

$2,881

c2p2online.com

$2,050

xn--5m4ax1d.com
(IDN)

$2,704

artlibrary.com

$2,005

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the lone
five-figure sale in this category - DailyDeals.de at $20,237
via Sedo. They claimed the first four spots on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales
Chart by following with #2 United-Kingdom.co.uk ($6,427),
#3 IlSale.it ($5,940) and #4 LaSalle.mx ($5,500).
Sedo went on to sweep 17 of the 20 chart entries overall.

DomainLore.co.uk
rounded out the first five with Seychelles.co.uk at $5,429.
Moniker/SnapNames also had a a pair of top ten entries with #6 6713.us
at $4,900 and #8 Niche.co at $4,070.

Germany's .de easily won the extension race
with seven chart entries. Great Britain's .uk followed
with four (three .co.uk and one .org.uk) and Colombia's .co had
two. Seven other TLDs claimed on spot each.

Here is how the country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 29:

There were several dozen additional
four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for
most of those including In-Out.eu and Wunschzettel.at at
$2,363 apiece. AAC.us added $2,277 with
three others - Bartels-Germany.de, Helling.de and ShopTracker.de
taking in $2,025 each.

Sedo had 32 more
four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 that
are listed in the table below:

Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,000

pair.es

$2,000

verbandsmanagement.de

$1,350

dfr.co

$1,999

anwalt-bankrecht.de

$1,337

footglove.cn

$1,999

uklive.co.uk

$1,288

eaudetoilette.de

$1,823

chb.co.za

$1,250

sta.no

$1,755

branchenshop.de

$1,214

modalatina.es

$1,620

kurierdienst24.de

$1,208

mci.fr

$1,619

matti.ch

$1,148

vendetta.co

$1,500

abrechnung-online.de

$1,080

kiwiki.de

$1,485

keepitsafe.de

$1,080

zomerradar.be

$1,470

onpage.com.br

$1,080

cressi.com.au

$1,458

sessel.eu

$1,080

baccanale.it

$1,350

bank-und-kapitalmarktrecht.de

$1,049

beheizbarehandschuhe.de

$1,350

weekendonline.nl

$1,026

rechtsanwalt-kapitalmarktrecht.de

$1,350

pau.be

$1,013

reporting.eu

$1,350

xal.nl

$1,013

stadtgespräch.de

$1,350

urojay.ru

$1,000

Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk sold Cry.co.uk for $1,868 and NetFleet.com.au
picked up $1,852 for Hygiene.com.au and $1,082
for Mobipay.com.au.

If there are country code extensions in our report
that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each
extension goes with here.

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi,
.net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

The non .com gTLDs were led by the
quartet of four-figure sales you saw in the all extension
section above, with LT.org setting the pace at $26,000
via Sedo. The highest sale from this category that you haven't
seen yet is #5 on on our latest weekly .Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart.
That is an IDN - Hörgeräte.info - that sold for $5,403
at Sedo.

Moniker/SnapNames, who claimed five of the top
ten sales, filled the #6 slot with EEA.net at $4,995
and the #7 hole with Concast.net at $3,600. Sedo
still wound up with the most chart entries overall - 14 of 20 -
with a roster than included #8 Trondheim.net at $2,800.

The .nets easily won the extension race,
taking 14 of the 20 chart entries. .Org and .info had
three each.

Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders
stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 29:

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the
past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all
categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.

*****

As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports
from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an
important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and
help make this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.
We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their
sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a
handle on current domain values.

Every Wednesday we publish the highest
reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and
Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous
7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to
give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry.

Editor's Note: If you wish to review
previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.